Hyde Name Origins.

The name "HYDE" is derived from the hide, a measure of land for taxation purposes, taken to be that area of land necessary to support a peasant family. In later times it was taken to be equivalent to 120 acres .

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Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Nobby's Products

Can anyone throw some light on this?

This postcard is on ebay.. I've never heard of Nobby's Products before and 'The Factory' got me... as there must have been many in Hyde when this was posted... If you know your stamps can you put date to this? which factory was the 'FACTORY' and who was 'NOBBY'

I've looked at the postcard on eBay and wish you'd printed the 2nd side as well Tom. I notice two things really; one that the address shown gives the appearance of having been written either by a word processor or a modern electronic typewriter - so crisp and clear is the print. In contrast, the reverse side shows what I'm certain is a commercially printed message with an additional note above it which has been done on a manual typewriter which obviously needed a good cleaning. The card doesn't appear to have been used postally so I assume the stamp could have been stuck on at any time. Authentically, it doesn't ring true for me.

Werneth LowI have up dated he post with the reverse side... I think this is a card the Nobby's had printed... the typed name was added by their own type writer. Very much the stamped addressed envelope of it's day. I think it just never got sent back to them.

Hyde Lad is correct. Nobby Products Ltd was owned by the the company of the same name at 4 Cannon Street, Manchester. The Cheapside Malt factory was opened in 1932 and closed in 1937. It was just known as the Factory.

Hi Annie here,I used to walk to school down lumb road then on to Cheapside,and there was an Horlicks works at the bottom,they would give us Horlicks tablets about 1950/4 on our way home from school.Does .any one else remember .

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